Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 2
Think of a fire alarm going off in your school: a smell, a noise or a bright colour can be a warning, and Sumatra's animals use all three, from a stinking flower to a loris with venom in its elbows.
Who acts: you, fire alarm, bright colour, animals · What happens: think, go off, be, use · To what, where: smell, school, warning, three, stinking flower
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fire alarm, bright colour, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 alarm | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 alarm | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarm | compound |
| 5 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 alarm | acl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 going | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 school | nmod:poss |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 smell | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 smell | det |
| 13 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 noise | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 noise | det |
| 16 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smell | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 warning | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 colour | det |
| 19 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 colour | amod |
| 20 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warning | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 warning | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 warning | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 warning | det |
| 24 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noise | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 use | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 use | cc |
| 27 | Sumatra | Sumatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 animals | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Sumatra | case |
| 29 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 use | nsubj |
| 30 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 three | det |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 use | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 flower | punct |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 flower | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 flower | det |
| 36 | stinking | stinking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 flower | amod |
| 37 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 use | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 loris | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 loris | det |
| 40 | loris | loris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 flower | nmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 venom | case |
| 42 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 loris | nmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 elbows | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 elbows | nmod:poss |
| 45 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 venom | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a fire alarm | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go off | gerund | a fire alarm not said here | a smell and a noise or a warning | your school | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in school=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | can | a bright colour | a warning | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | present | Sumatra's animals | all three | a stinking flower to a loris with venom in colour's elbows | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:2.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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